Long Island - 8700 acres - US $1,250,000 This private island is immense, so big, in fact, that there are actually 4 countries in the world with a smaller surface area! Situated off the coast of central Queensland between the towns of Mackay and Rockhampton, 20 nautical miles (37 km) from the Great Barrier Reef, Long Island is one of Queensland's largest coastal islands. Open grasslands, forests, and a beautiful coastline characterize the island. There are 4 sandy beaches, one of which is 4 km (2.5 miles) long, and the water temperature remains at 20-22 °C (68-72 °F) all year long. Much of the island is suitable for agriculture, with over 4000 acres (1620 ha) of fertile soil. A 4-bedroom house is present on the island, along with a private airstrip.

We'd have to schedule time shares with the island. Libertarians can have it on alternate weeks, and the other weeks we would have to hire cleanup crews, pollution and litter control specialists, drug rehabilitation therapists, psychiatrists, social workers, repairmen, and undertakers to clean up the mess which the irresponsible ideologues always leave behind. We can call it Bureaucratopia.

I don't think Austrailia would allow you to declare independance like that!

Being Austrailia has some of the largest taxes in the world due to it's 45% welfare roles, wonder if you would end up with a yearly $1,000,000 tax there? Plus, that part of the world has the most dangerous things in the world living there. Most bites can kill you and if you scratch yourself on a reef, there might be a 40% chance you will get an organism in the blood that would kill you. Then of course there are the sharks!

Maybe you could make this a mother-in-law getaway vacation spot for the unhappily married! LOL

Apparently, the libertarians have their eyes set on Lake Titicaca, partly because of the intriguing name, and partly because the life expectancy of Anglos in the nearby Bolivian towns, where the nose candy is so cheap, is two and a half years.

In the jungles of your Republic hides a little known revolutionary known as Fidel Lowbridge. Riling up the poor and downtrodden masses against his Excellency Hammach.

"Free bread! Freedom! Milk for the babies!" cried Fidel.

The uneducated, illiterate farmhands, knowing nothing about international geo-politics, screamed their approval.

Fidel then picks up a gun and proceeds to carry on a civil war. At first his Excellency his quite sure that his troops will put down this rebellion within a matter of days, even hours. But within months, there is no sign of the letup. His troops are close to exhaustion, underfed, underequipped, morale is at an all time low.

Fidel Lowbridge, in the meantime, has gotten stronger. He has found support amongst the peasants who are tired of hard work for little money and not being educated by their government. The peasants in greater numbers, join this funny looking revolutionary.

Three years later his Excellency flees the Republic before he could be captured and shot. Fidel takes over and rules the former Republic of Hammach (now renamed the People's Republic of Lowbridge),

8: The rate of taxation shall not rise above the level where all basic essential services are fulfilled.

That's what they said at the beginning of the USA. What are "all basic essential services"? That depends on your opinion doesn't it? Let's say instead "The rate of taxation shall not rise above 5%" or better yet, "There shall be no taxation whatsoever." The government can beg the people for money instead of the other way around.

I like that. We could write limitations on government spending into the constitution. They could collect the revenues from the previous year and that would be all they could spend -no budget projections from idiot politicians. Maybe a national retail sales tax to generate cash for government. The lowest tax in the world of course and it couldn't be raised.

The low wage workers can go back to Australia after they're done with their minimum wage jobs for the day.(someone has to make the beds in the luxurious hotels)

Until they adopt the direct action theories of 'headsonpikes,' end wage-slavery, expropriate the means of production, and start to eat the rich! The libertarians have a plan to thwart this horror, though: Ban the free association of unions, and make it a crime for the lowly hired hands to not make beds, cook, and wash dishes. Freedom is slavery!

The islander wanted "an island all of his own: not necessarily to be alone on it, but to make it a world of his own." Maybe at some point, seeing his life stretching out before him, and seeking a happiness he thought would elude the rest, the islander missed seeing the fact that a world of his own meant a world with nothing that was not his own. Trapped in a body, in a reality, to continue to exist meant accepting things not of himself, with things that were not his own, with people that were not his own. Maybe he didn't see that a world of his own was a world alone, and a very lonely world.

Not meaning to trivialize anyone's love of country, but seriously either your skin is very thin or you need to get a grip on reality. People don't usually flock to tyrannical countries, and last time I looked there were huge lines of immigrants waiting for their chances to be free here.

Why don't we get into negotiations with Belize? Freepers will come to town, upgrade their infrastructure (information technology, utilities, and so forth), in exchange for a 'sovereign' section of land (similar to the Mennonites in Belize) and a few of those GORGEOUS cayes off the coast. We spend the rest of our lives sucking down pina coladas and enjoying the finest Caribbean rums while those who remain in America deal with Hillary Clinton. Sounds like a plan. Click here for details.

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